Activist Group Pays California Students $1,400 to Become Social Justice Activists

The school district also used nearly $2 million in taxpayer funds from 2019 to 2023 to pay for equity and diversity training for students and teachers.

Students participate in a school walk-out and protest in a file photo in Los Angeles on May 31, 2022. Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images

A California activist group is paying high school students $1,400 each to become racial and social justice activists, according to contracts between the group and the Long Beach Unified School District.

The school district used nearly $2 million in taxpayer funds from 2019 to 2023 to pay Californians for Justice for equity and diversity leadership training for its students and teachers, according to news outlet The Free Press—a new media company founded by Bari Weiss, formerly of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times—who obtained the contracts.